If your talking about the CCR2116-12G-4S+, its a nice router with the AL73400, which is a 16 core A72 platform. OTOH, for a general purpose machine roughly in the same ballpark your probably better off with the NXP LX2160A on something like the solidrun honeycomb. The latter is more suited for general purpose compute given the pcie slot, sata, m.2 slot, pluggable ram, etc. Its also 16 A72's, with the advantage its a systemready certified platform.

But, those are really old generation parts given there are a number of A76 based systems appearing on the market. Those chips are a giant step above the A72 based machines the same way the A72 is a big step above the A5x ones. (aka its a gravaton1->gravaton2 kind of step, or the diff between atom and the mainstream i5/7 parts)

Edit: Notice the G1->G2 uplift in single threaded perf. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...

That is going to be the uplift going from a A72->A76+ platform. The IPC is nearly 2x, and translates to going from a early 2000s era x86 to something fairly modern.